Hello everyone. really excited about learning how to ride a motorcycle and that there is a special forum strictly just for Vulcans. I'm a 23 yr old female, just bought a used 2008 Vulcan 500 as a birthday gift for myself (in exactly 7 days). Hope to do a lot of learning and riding. Any tips and advice about anything would be amazing. Thank you much, hope to hear from someone soon.

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Parking lots and back roads! Build your confidence on these and never ride past your internal limits. There are several threads here written by folks who have a knack for writing about safety, what to look for and what to look out for. Read up! and have fun! Ride safe................

Another vote for taking the MSF. I also recommending picking up a copy of 'Proficient Motorcycling'. You can get a cheap digital copy if you have an eReader. Definitely worth the read whether your a veteran or a brand new rider.

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Thanks for the replies. I have taken the course but it was on a sports bike. the cruiser feels different but i chose it because its more comfortable to ride.

Welcome aboard! I took the course this past Spring. Since it was the Harley Rider Edge version I learned on the Buell Blast, so going home and sitting on my 30 year old GS450 was certainly different, especially how it handled.

What I did was ride around my neighborhood in ever widening circles. I planned routes that wouldn't have much traffic. After a week or so I tried the highway, but only from one entrance to the next exit, a couple miles.

Once I got a little more comfortable I created little destination goals, like riding to a park or to visit my parents a couple towns over. After setting the goal I would then think about what skills I would need to be able to complete it, and worked on those.

The ride to my parents was a good one because it made me work on riding in traffic with lots of lights, because I needed to cross downtown Portland to get there. It also meant that I needed to think about taking off on inclines. Though there was no way to prepare for driving across a large bridge with open grates, thats an eerie feeling you feel entirely disconnected from the road surface.

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